BILL NUMBER: SB 1273	CHAPTERED  04/15/99

	CHAPTER   13
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   APRIL 15, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   APRIL 15, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   APRIL 8, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   MARCH 22, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MARCH 18, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MARCH 15, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Burton

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act relating to state employees, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1273, Burton.  State employees:  memoranda of understanding.
   Existing law provides that if any provision of a memorandum of
understanding reached between the state employer and a recognized
employee organization representing state civil service employees
requires the expenditure of funds, those provisions of the memorandum
of understanding shall not become effective unless approved by the
Legislature in the annual Budget Act.
   This bill would approve provisions that require the expenditure of
funds of memoranda of understanding entered into between the state
employer and the Association of California State Attorneys and the
Professional Engineers in California Government, and would provide
that the provisions of any memorandum of understanding that require
the expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the
provisions of the memorandum of understanding are approved by the
Legislature in legislation other than the annual Budget Act.
  The bill would also declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of
this act is to adopt agreements pursuant to Section 3517 of the
Government Code entered into by the state employer and recognized
employee organizations to make any necessary statutory changes in
health, retirement, salary, or other benefits.
  SEC. 2.  The provisions of the following memoranda of understanding
prepared pursuant to Section 3517.5 of the Government Code and
entered into by the state employer and the following employees
organizations, and that require the expenditure of funds, are hereby
approved for the purposes of Section 3517.5 of the Government   Code:

   (a) State Bargaining Unit 2, Association of California State
Attorneys.
   (b) State Bargaining Unit 9, Professional Engineers in California
Government.
  SEC. 3.  Notwithstanding Section 3517.6 of the Government Code, the
provisions of any memorandum of understanding that require the
expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the provisions of
the memorandum of understanding are approved by the Legislature in
legislation other than the annual Budget Act.
  SEC. 4.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order for the provisions of this act to be applicable as soon
as possible in the 1998-99 fiscal year, and so facilitate the orderly
administration of state government at the earliest possible time, it
is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
